Post-traumatic epilepsy continues to be a major concern for those experiencing traumatic
brain injury. Post-traumatic epilepsy accounts for 10–20% of epilepsy cases in the general …

Background Women comprise a growing proportion of Veterans seeking care at Veterans
Affairs (VA) healthcare facilities. VA initiatives have accelerated changes in services for …

Sleep and epilepsy are common bedfellows. Sleep can affect frequency and occurrence of
interictal spikes and occurrence, timing, and threshold of seizure. Epilepsy can worsen sleep …

Insomnia is defined as difficulties of initiating and maintaining sleep, early awakening and
poor subjective sleep quality despite adequate opportunity and circumstances for sleep with …

Insomnia is more prevalent in neurological disorders compared to the general population,
with rates ranging from 11 to 74.2% in neurodegenerative disorders, 20 to 37% in vascular …

Study Objectives: Sleep disorders are frequent co-occurrences in patients with epilepsy
(PWE), but sleep-disordered breathing and insomnia are better studied than others. Our aim …

Background Insomnia is a common sleep complaint in the general population, and sleep
loss may be a trigger for epileptic seizures. Objectives To conduct a comprehensive review …

Opinion statement Sleep has a strong influence on interictal epileptiform discharges and on
epileptic seizures. Interictal epileptiform discharges are activated by sleep deprivation and …

Methods: Five groups of male Wistar rats were treated respectively with normal saline
(control), sodium valproate (370 mg/kg), lamotrigine (50 mg/kg), levetiracetam (310 mg/kg) …

Background Few studies have systematically investigated insomnia in adults with epilepsy.
Methods We performed a prospective cross-sectional investigation of the prevalence …